A third of workers believe having an AI boss would make them more productive
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THE AI ANGLE
Potentially replacing or augmenting middle managers as workplace supervisorsA survey of 600 UK employees revealed that while over a third of workers and 64% of directors believe an AI boss would increase productivity, 74.2% of employees still prefer human superiors for performance feedback. Concurrently, nearly 40% of middle managers doubt AI will yield productivity gains, reflecting anxieties about organizational flattening and job replacement. For instructors, these findings highlight the difficult balance between leveraging automation for operational efficiency and maintaining the human connection essential for employee development.
THE TEACHING ANGLE
Instructors can examine the tension between executive efforts to flatten managerial hierarchies using AI and workers' psychological preference for human empathy, context, and face-to-face feedback.Read the original at techradar.com Generate teaching or study materials
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